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- 30 Mar 2024, 16:10
- Forum: Instrumentation
- Topic: Astroart 8 SP5 64bit - camera control.
- Replies: 0
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Astroart 8 SP5 64bit - camera control.
I've upgraded one of my imaging setups [ 10in SCT at F8 with a Starizona LF SCT reducer, OAG with ASi178mm guide camera, CEM120 mount] from an APSC Orion Starshoot Pro V1 camera to an APSC ASI1071 MC Pro camera. I am happy to report that AA8 64bit SP5 + ASCOM 2.73 works as expected with the 64bit ca...
- 30 Mar 2024, 15:48
- Forum: Instrumentation
- Topic: AA8 with the Sky X
- Replies: 1
- Views: 91
Re: AA8 with the Sky X
I'm doing my best at trying to use a paramount MEII controlled by AA8 via The Sky X. I have The correct ASCOM Sky for telescope control where I have deactivated synchronise. What I would like to know is the correct settings for TSX and start up procedure. I start up AA with the control settings suc...
- 22 Mar 2024, 00:43
- Forum: General
- Topic: Suggestions for next SP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1301
- 20 Mar 2024, 21:23
- Forum: General
- Topic: Suggestions for next SP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1301
Re: Suggestions for next SP - multizone deconvolution
I was thinking about how to implement more effective deconvolution that would work better for images that have a large variation in the PSF from the centre to the edge of the sensor. A simple way would be to automatically create a series of circular masks. with the inner mask covering about 25% diam...
- 05 Mar 2024, 15:08
- Forum: Images, research, events
- Topic: PK205 +14.1 AKA Medusa Nebula
- Replies: 0
- Views: 233
PK205 +14.1 AKA Medusa Nebula
This is 33 x 15min subs (8.25 hours) taken through a 10in SCT at F8 using an Orion Star Shoot Pro V1 atop a CEM120 mount. Autoguided, autofocused, and processed in AA8 SP5. Flat fielded, DF subtracted. processing history: 14:00:40 Remove gradient adaptive sub. 80 13:57:53 DDP 90 30 0 25 50 1.45 20 1...
- 27 Feb 2024, 23:09
- Forum: Images, research, events
- Topic: Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 252
Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1)
Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1) is a 14th magnitude planetary nebula in Lynx. This image is the result of a Sigma-Sum stack of 36 x 900sec subframes (9 hours integration time), taken by an Orion Starshoot Pro V2 APSC CCD camera through a Meade 10in F6.3 SCT @ F5 via a Starizona .75X SCT reducer on a ...
- 12 Feb 2024, 15:32
- Forum: Scripts
- Topic: Shifting a set of images by a given shift (dX,dY) depending on image
- Replies: 5
- Views: 325
Re: Shifting a set of images by a given shift (dX,dY) depending on image
Hi, I am at the very beginning of my leaning curve about scripts. So, I have a number of questions ... I would like to shift a set of images (image-1.fit, image-2.fit, image-3.fit, ..., image-i.fit) by a given shift (X, Y)(i), the value of each shift (X,Y) dependant on the image number i. I know ho...
- 29 Dec 2023, 23:59
- Forum: Image processing and analysis
- Topic: Demosaic - extracting green channels
- Replies: 2
- Views: 871
Re: Demosaic - extracting green channels
Hi The command "Demosaic RGB" allows the user to extract a single colour channel. However for Bayer patterns with 2 green channels, does AA8 sum or average these two or just pick one? Regards Andrew The green channels are combined, but I think this is a function of the debayering process itself.
- 09 Nov 2023, 16:24
- Forum: General
- Topic: Sun Tracking
- Replies: 2
- Views: 765
Re: Sun Tracking
I recently tried doing a goto to the Sun but got an error message. Sorry I cannot quote the message since it has been to many days back it was something about format if I remember correctly. Is there a way to do a GOTO to the Sun or is this a safety issue to prevent accidently looking at the Sun? I...
- 24 Sep 2023, 03:31
- Forum: Instrumentation
- Topic: Alt-az mounts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 991
Re: Alt-az mounts
I am curious to know whether others have plans similar to mine. My next telescope setup will use an alt-az mount. While until recently the combination of an alt-az mount and a rotator was the province of very large professional telescopes, it is increasingly available for small telescopes, and thes...
- 23 Aug 2023, 04:37
- Forum: Instrumentation
- Topic: using AA8 via The Sky X
- Replies: 1
- Views: 910
Re: using AA8 via The Sky X
Are there any members who are using AstroArt xx via The Sky X to control Software Bisque paramount GEM. I am doing this with AA8 and I have the necessary ASCOM Sky X driver from software Bisque. I think I'm having some problems using the AA8's goto - image -plate solve and synch on camera image, re...
- 15 Aug 2023, 04:24
- Forum: Images, research, events
- Topic: Astroart and FFT
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1367
Re: Astroart and FFT
Thanks!